Poole and Bournemouth Stamp & Postcard Club (Founded 1967)
Affiliated to the Association of British Philatelic Societies
and
The Hampshire Philatelic Federation
Meetings are held at 7:30pm on the first and third Thursday of each month at the Upton Community Centre,
Poole Road, Upton, Poole BH16 5JA (see map at bottom of page)
Car park at Upton Community Centre
and St Dunstan's Church, Upton, Poole
To see reports of meetings from 1 November 2012 to 16 December 2021, please click here
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Club Committee from 2 December 2021
Chairman | David Wilkins |
Vice-Chairman | Mike Houchen |
Seccretary | Michael Mawdsley |
Treasurer | Wendy Buckle |
Programme Secretary | Brian Snape |
Fair Secretary | N/A for 2022 |
Publicity Officer | Rick Wilmot |
Committee Members | Tony Arnold, Ken Parrott |
Club Programme for 2022
January |
6th |
Members’ displays |
X, Y and Z are for . . . |
January |
20th |
“Guest” Wendy Buckle |
Latvia 1785-1945 |
February |
3rd |
Members’ displays |
Music and Musicians |
February |
17th |
Members’ displays |
Food and Drink |
March |
3rd |
Competition evening |
Green, Novice, Barry Proctor, John Hilton Cups and Bill Way Shield |
March |
17th |
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Spring Auction |
April |
7th |
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Competition displays and awards |
April |
21st |
“Guest” John Davis |
Venice |
May |
5th |
Members’ displays |
Saints . . . people and places |
May |
19th |
AGM |
Single sheet from all |
June |
2nd |
Members’ displays |
Designers |
June |
16th |
"Guest" Len Yandell |
Le Havre |
July |
7th |
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Summer Auction |
July |
21st |
"Guest" Brian Snape |
Sandor Legrady |
August |
4th |
Members’ displays |
Occupations |
August |
18th |
"Guest" Chris Wheeler |
The History of the Salvation Army, then The Cause, Cure and History of the Plague Pandemics |
September |
1st |
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Autumn Auction |
September |
15th |
Members’ displays |
Flight |
October |
6th |
Members’ displays |
Centenaries |
October |
20th |
Rick Wilmot |
The Dream of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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November |
3rd |
Members’ displays |
Stamps of a single denomination |
November |
17th |
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Winter Auction |
December |
1st |
Members’ displays |
Festivals |
December |
15th |
Christmas social |
Food and drink; quiz; members’ displays of anything non-philatelic |
Meeting Reports |
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Thursday 16th June "Le Havre" - "Guest" Len Yandell "Our guest speaker Mr. Len Yandell gave a very comprehensive talk on his Le Havre display. He spoke about the history of Le Havre and the twinning with Southampton. All in all a very interesting evening."
(Rick Wilmot) ********************************************************************* Thursday 2nd June "Designers" - Members Tonight’s topic was ‘Designers’. Ken Parrott began with a display of Arnold Machin, David Gentleman and other British designers together with Emvin Cremona, a Maltese stamp designer. Mike Houghton showed lots of Lighthouses and their designers. Interesting stuff on the building of lighthouses including history of John Smeaton, among others, who designed the famous Eddystone Lighthouse. Rick Wilmot contributed with stamps designed by Edmond/Edmund Dulac of the 1945 French stamps of Marianne printed in London. Other designers shown were Czeslaw Slania and Martin Mörck. Tony Arnold brought an advertising poster for the designer Keith Bassford. David Wilkins also showed Dulac’s design of Marianne together with other series of Free France, printed in London. Wendy Buckle showed line engraved stamps and spoke about the art of line engraving with stamps from Argentine also Slania material..
(Rick Wilmot) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Thursday 19th May AGM and Single Sheet from all The Chairman and Secretary gave their reports. The Treasurer's report was adopted, and all previous committee members were re-elected unopposed. Members had been asked to bring one sheet for display. Rick Wilmot began with a complete sheet of 100 in a frame depicting 1914 Russian charity stamps. Mike Houchen; Ladybird Book stamps 2017 GB. Ray Saunders; QE2 Europe stamps and booklets. Alan King; advertising on reverse side of stamps. Tony Arnold; Shakespeare covers. Ken Parrott; early Malta. Simon Adams KGVl stamps of Swaziland showing shade and perforation differences. Wendy Buckle; Cayman Islands and hand painted postcards of different material. Finally, Cheryl with a page of commonwealth UPU stamps.
(Rick Wilmot) ****************************************** Thursday 5 May 2022 “Saints . . . people and places" - Members Mike Mawdsley began the evening with a display of Saints on stamps including St. George, St. Patrick, followed by Ugandan Saints, Indian and more from different countries. Ken Parrott showed Saints from Malta which is predominantly a Catholic country. Then other Saints found around Britain. Rick Wilmot followed with an Italian cover showing a stamp of St. Francis of Assisi together with Elvis Presley stamps from St Vincent. Also, a copy of an article from a 1937 Stamp Magazine entitled ‘Saints on Postage Stamps’ by Henry Cater. Ray Saunders brought several pages of stamps from St. Lucia, St. Christopher, St. Helena and others, a really good display. Tony Arnold mentioned St. Dunstan from the building next door and other local material. Also showed stamps of St. Lucia and St. Vincent. Finally, Wendy Buckle brought a display of Saints on paintings including those of the four gospels, then the Book of Kells and other bible stories on stamps.
(Rick Wilmot) *********************************************** Thursday 21 April 2022 “Venice" - “Guest” John Davis Mr. John Davis was the guest. He gave us a very comprehensive display of philatelic material of Venice. Many stamps and postcards depicting bridges, buildings, the Grand Canal and St Mark’s Square. A fascinating journey through the history of Venice. Many stamps from different countries dedicated to preserving the artistic heritage of Venice and the USA and UNESCO Save Venice Campaign. The cover addressed to Moscow is particularly interesting because it shows being posted on 7 June 1896 and received 29th May 1896, due to the difference in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Later in the display a complete series of stamps from Trieste, Zones A/B, 1947-1954, and Istria followed by some modern postcards nicely rounded of an enjoyable evening.
(Rick Wilmot) *********************************************** Thursday 7 April 2022 Everybody who had entered this year’s annual competitions was invited to show their exhibit and tell the audience a bit about it. The winners were: General Philately winner: Rick Wilmot with Stamps of Slovenia 1919 – 1921. The Kingdom of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs was created following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I. The exhibit shows the various series of stamps issued by Slovenia shortly after independence: the Chainbreakers, the Three Falcons, Angel of Peace, King Peter I, newspaper stamps and postage dues. Thematic Philately winner: Rick Wilmot with Philately of the German Leipzig Fair paintings. The Leipzig Fair dates back to the Middle Ages. First mentioned in 1165, Otto the Rich, Margrave of Meissen, organised the fairs under his protection. This display covered the history of the Fair, including its famous double-M symbol and the series of 12 art stamps issued to commemorate the Fair, shown through covers and cards. Open Philately winner: Tony Arnold with First hundred years of the TT races. First day covers, PHQ cards and stamps all illustrated the Isle of Man TT races from 1907 – 2007. Famous riders were shown, including Sammy Miller, now aged 89, who raced in the 1950s and 1960s, and who now runs the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum at New Milton. Picture Postcard winner: Ray Saunders with World War II vintage movie posters. These picture postcards were graphic reproductions of 24 World War II films, including famous ones such as ‘Reach for the Sky’ and ‘The Cruel sea’. Many of them can still be found on television channels today. The posters are themselves art works of stunning design. The other competitors who showed their exhibits were Mike Goodman, Mike Houchen and Brian Snape. See meeting report 3rd March below for the full list of entries and results.
(Rick Wilmot) *********************************************** Thursday 17 March 2022 The first auction of 2022 brought in 22 members and one visitor. There were plenty of lots available.
Various lots for sale (Rick Wilmot) ********************************************************************** Thursday 3 March 2022
Our thanks go to Colin Mount for judging the General and Thematic Classes
(Rick Wilmot) ****************************************************************** Thursday 17 February 2022 Seven members put up displays this evening Ken Parrott. A selection of Commonwealth stamps and covers including Malta.
The meeting closed with the Chairman reminding members about the competition evening on 3rd March. (Rick Wilmot) **************************************************** Thursday 3 February 2022 The meeting opened with Wendy Buckle speaking about the forthcoming Contributions came from: Ken Parrott, with modern pop music including several examples of Paul McCartney on stamps.
(Rick Wilmot) ***************************************************************************** Thursday 20 January 2022 The display told something of the complicated history of Latvia through stamps and postal history. By the late 18th century Latvia had become part of the Russian Empire, shown through pre-stamp markings, then the introduction of postage stamps in Russia. Throughout World War I the country was occupied by German forces. Two types of postal history were shown here: the military Feldpost system with three major types of postmark; and the civilian mail system, subject to very strict censorship; both systems being used until the end of World War I. In November 1918 Latvia declared her independence from Russia and issued her first stamp, which due to a paper shortage was printed on the back of military maps. But by 1919 the country was embroiled in the “Latvian War of Independence”, fighting Bolshevik, White Russian and German troops. Provisional mail from this period was shown. By June 1920 the country had regained some stability and two frames of stamps plus one frame of covers from 1919 to 1940 were shown. This was followed by one frame of airmails. The last frame illustrated Latvia’s history in World War II, occupied first by Soviet, then German forces.
(Rick Wilmot) *********************************************************************** Thursday 6 January 2022
Brian Snape began with a selection of material from Eastern Europe. Mike Houchen with Lighthouses from the former Yugoslavia. Alan King also showed Yugoslavia together with African countries beginning with Z. Similarly, Michael Mawdsley showed material from Zanzibar, Zimbabwe and Zambia. New member, Simon Adams brought interesting perfins, Y pictured below. Dave Wilkins had decided that X could be interpreted as EX and showed some ex Italian colonies. Rick Wilmot showed a Danish cover depicting Xerxes, a mural in a Danish church, together with some Yemen miniature sheets. And finally, Mike Goodman had brought some novel USA material including a leather postcard.
(Rick Wilmot) ******************************************************** Thursday 16 December, 2021 Twelve members plus ones, came along to the Christmas social evening. David Wilkins (Chairman) welcomed everyone. There was plenty of food and drink available. The raffle in memory of Theresa Saunders, who had sadly passed away recently, raised £25 for club funds.
There were just two displays, one from Tony Arnold with some local pictures of Lytchett Minster, and the other from Shirley Kemp with a display of the art work of Czechoslovakian artist Vaclav Jansa.
A photo quiz by Tony followed with Brian Snape being the outright winner. The evening ended with the chairman thanking everyone for their contributions and, hopefully, looking forward to an interesting philatelic 2022.
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Our Next Meeting Next Meeting 7 July 2022 The Club meets at the Upton Community Centre (next to St Dunstan's Church) in the evenings of the first and third Thursdays of the month at 7.15pm for 7.30pm. Secretary:- Michael Mawdsley, email: michael.p.mawdsley@gmail.com or Mike Houchen:- 01202 622873 (Local, Upton)
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